Making Cookies

This time of year, Meron really gets into the baking. Any of you that have come to our fairly annual open house/Christmas party have seen the large variety of cookies that are out for consumption. I think this year she has eight types scheduled for the big shindig, as well as to give out to some of our church shut-ins.

The one type she's most proud of, though, is her brown sugar cookies. She loves making them and they get very good reviews. She cuts them into shapes and then frosts them with brightly-colored frosting to make the stockings, trees, etc. look just so.

This year, she decided to let both Sarah and Benjamin cut out the shapes for the cookies. As you can see, they took to it very well.

Sarah was so particular with hers, as she can be a little fussy about things at times. She carefully put the cutters into the dough, then was later moving the cookies with a spatula.

Benjamin enjoyed the process as well, though I'm not sure he was as enamored with it as Sarah was. Still, he's been known to enjoy his time in the kitchen.

Here's what the cookies looked like before they were baked:

All in all, it was a good evening for the holiday family get-together stuff that you expect out of the holidays. Hopefully some of you will get to taste the results this weekend! I'll leave you with a few more scenes from today's cooking. You'll note that Sarah kept an eye on her brother when it was his turn, but goofed around some as well.....